Comments on: Things That Don’t Turn Off http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2007/07/29/things-that-dont-turn-off/ Creating Implications Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:48:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Julian http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2007/07/29/things-that-dont-turn-off/#comment-147 Julian Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:25:34 +0000 http://research.techkwondo.com/?p=2010#comment-147 Yes — these things are quite interesting j-b. Thinking of different ways to imbue our devices with characteristics or properties that integrate them into our lives is intriguing. Its something fresh that isn't about just a new confusing feature or something. Just a property — this thing obeys the sun, for example. Or this thing goes to sleep at certain times. These properties are very intriguing to me! Yes — these things are quite interesting j-b. Thinking of different ways to imbue our devices with characteristics or properties that integrate them into our lives is intriguing. Its something fresh that isn’t about just a new confusing feature or something. Just a property — this thing obeys the sun, for example. Or this thing goes to sleep at certain times. These properties are very intriguing to me!

]]> By: jean-baptiste http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2007/07/29/things-that-dont-turn-off/#comment-139 jean-baptiste Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:16:26 +0000 http://research.techkwondo.com/?p=2010#comment-139 Always on electronics is very similar to BEAM robotics and approaches such as wild robotics :) What implies these new wild pcb's ? Changing perspective from assimilation (grid, battery) to accomodation (photovoltaic, motion-based, etc) opens intriguing design questions when it comes to shape things. In this respect, these new objects are techno-organisms, a specific class of biojects ( http://insitu.lri.fr/~labrune/blog/bioject/ ). Here is a early research of solartronic devices ( http://insitu.lri.fr/~labrune/blog/2007/07/23/photophobes/ ). We're working now on a solar-radio with no battery. To activate it, you should bring it sunlight and to put it off to find a dark shelf :) What is nice about that is that energy constraint leads to new interaction rituals :] Always on electronics is very similar to BEAM robotics and approaches such as wild robotics :) What implies these new wild pcb’s ?

Changing perspective from assimilation (grid, battery) to accomodation (photovoltaic, motion-based, etc) opens intriguing design questions when it comes to shape things. In this respect, these new objects are techno-organisms, a specific class of biojects ( http://insitu.lri.fr/~labrune/blog/bioject/ ).

Here is a early research of solartronic devices ( http://insitu.lri.fr/~labrune/blog/2007/07/23/photophobes/ ). We’re working now on a solar-radio with no battery. To activate it, you should bring it sunlight and to put it off to find a dark shelf :) What is nice about that is that energy constraint leads to new interaction rituals :]

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